Extended trailer previews ‘Manhattan’ premiere on Sunday
Ahead of the series premiere on SUNDAY, July 27 at 9/8c on WGN America, we’re excited to unveil the first extended trailer for the gripping original scripted drama series Manhattan – which enters the world of deception, danger and sacrifices that characterizes one of the best-kept secrets of all time: the mission to build the world’s first atomic bomb.
For the first time ever, we’re offering a glimpse of never-before-seen footage from the first season. Check out the new video below.
Manhattan is created and written by Sam Shaw (Masters of Sex) and directed by Emmy Award-winning director Thomas Schlamme (The West Wing).
Manhattan stars John Benjamin Hickey, Olivia Williams, Ashley Zukerman, Rachel Brosnahan, Katja Herbers, Alexia Fast, Christopher Denham, Harry Lloyd, Michael Chernus and Daniel Stern.
Manhattan is set in the 1940s in a town whose very existence is classified. Frank Winter and his team of brilliant but flawed scientists have been recruited to work on a project even they could know nothing about until their arrival. Once inside “The Hill,” a middle-class bubble on a dusty foothill in the New Mexico desert, they begin to sense that this is no ordinary assignment. In fact, they are living in a town with the world’s highest concentration of geniuses, yet it can’t be found on any map—a place where men and women are torn between duty and their moral values, husbands and wives conceal the truth from each other and their families, the military keeps secrets from the scientists they chaperone, and the scientists keep secrets from each other.
For Global Dispatch interviews with creator Sam Shaw – click HERE or star Ashley Zukerman HERE
Manhattan airs Sunday on WGN 9pm/8 pm CT
For more from WGN on their show, posters and details visit their page for Manhattan HERE
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